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In 2366, while vacationing on Risa, Jean-Luc Picard was baffled when Vash greeted him with an embrace and acted as though she knew him. He suggested she might have mistaken him for someone else, and she agreed, adding "Welcome to Risa." In Picard's opinion, "A simple handshake would have sufficed.". (TNG: "Captain's Holiday")

In ultimately unused dialogue from the final draft script of TOS: "Miri", James T. Kirk motioned to engage Miri in a handshake, telling her, "On our Earth, this means – we'll be friends...." Miri was already familiar with the gesture, and explained it meant the same thing on Earth Two. She then looked down with the intention of shaking Kirk's hand, but suddenly noticed a blemish on his hand, a tell-tale sign of a plague which had killed the planet's adult population. In the final version of the episode, Miri discovers the blemish when she looks down at Kirk's hands, but the intention of them exchanging a handshake isn't in the episode.

In the final draft script of ENT: "The Shipment", Jonathan Archer and Gralik Durr were described as bidding each other farewell with a handshake. However, they do not shake each other's hand in the final version of the episode. Another scripted but not shown handshake was to have been between Archer and CommanderTucker at the end of ENT: "Countdown".

The final draft script of ENT: "United" made it clear that the handshake between Shran and Gral was elicited by Archer. However, this is not so evident on screen.